David Whetham is Professor of Ethics and the Military Profession in the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London. He is the Director of the King’s Centre for Military Ethics and delivers and coordinates the military ethics component of courses for between two and three thousand British and international officers a year at the UK’s Joint Services Command and Staff College.

He has held Visiting Fellowships at the Centre for Defence Leadership and Ethics at the Australian Defence College in Canberra and at the University of Glasgow. He is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales.

Publications include Ethics, Law and Military Operations (Palgrave, 2010), and with Andrea Ellner & Paul Robinson (Eds), When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military (Ashgate: 2014).

David is the Vice President of the European Chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics (Euro ISME).